Atomic everything
Hello everyone, here is a post about recent stuff. Will and me went to the cinema to see The Monkey. It was nice to have a trip out, and I didn’t realise that the wheelchair-accessible seats would actually be all the way up a lift and on a separate balcony, which felt very fancy.
I partook in the meme of turning myself into a doll via ChatGPT. I’m impressed by how well it came out, namely, recognising that I was in a wheelchair in my picture. As I said on Instagram: it thinks my pendant of Polaris is a random tube, and it forgot my wedding ring, my dog and pet snail were also larger in real life, and my microphone doesn’t look like that kind, but you know what, it’s pretty good. I also forgot to tell it to make the box purple but it kind of guessed. I thought about adding my husband as an accessory, but he’s his own person so that felt a bit weird.
This is what AI should be for, in my opinion, making silly images of yourself to show your friends. It shouldn’t be used for anything serious, shouldn’t replace an artist’s job, and it definitely shouldn’t replace actors. It would be fun if we could invent the Protectron, but things like that should supplement human livelihoods and not take them. In my unsolicited opinion.
This is the prompt I used if you want to try it, which I got from an article: “Create a realistic action figure (Barbie doll) of the person in this photo. The doll should be full figure and displayed in its original clear plastic box packaging. At the top of the box is the name of the toy “[insert your name here]”. In the packaging, next to the figure are the toy’s accessories including [insert]”
Now, for some gaming news.
I started playing Atomfall and it’s kind of terrifying, but also fascinating. I’ve seen some people calling it “British Fallout,” and other people complaining that it’s, not British Fallout. Well, Fallout is set, at the earliest, the year 2102 when Vault 76 opens, all the way up to 2297 with the TV series. Because Fallout employs a lot of retrofuturism (which I love), a lot of things look very midcentury despite being future technology.
Atomfall however, is set in the actual 1960s, in an alternate past where the real Windscale fire led to a patch of England being quarantined off. It does feature technology that, as far as I know, we didn’t actually have in the 50s/60s, like the big ol’ robots. Although I see some influences, I don’t think it’s trying to be Fallout.
The robots are utterly terrifying, unlike most Protectrons. One set me a bit on fire, and another stomps around and tells me to stand back, in a very deep voice. I also met some cultists who seem a bit strange. Everyone seems mildly unhinged to be honest. I’m always getting in trouble and getting confused about what I did wrong. I also can’t talk to most strangers, but can press a button to tackle them, out of the blue.
It’s interesting going around and seeing all the high-tank toilets with the pull-chain flushes, which were still the norm in council houses I was growing up in during the 90s. I guess England hasn’t actually had normal-looking toilets for all that long.
I’m quite interested in atomic things in general. I already know I’m not smart enough to understand how nuclear power works, but it’s interesting. Fallout made me realise how much I actually love Midcentury aesthetic things, and Atomic Age design in general. Also love a bit of that Raygun Gothic, Populuxe, that Streamline Moderne, Art Deco, and a lil bit of Art Nouveau. If I could get some of that stuff in my house but in jewel-tone colours, that’d be neat.
Anyway, there’s not much Midcentury Modern to be had in Atomfall, but it’s still nice to explore and snoop around.
I was surprised to find out that the developers are actually British, as some of the dialogue phrasing seems a bit odd, but, maybe people just said weirder things in the 50s, I don’t know.
Speaking of British Fallout, I’d love to play the Fallout London mod for FO4, but I don’t want to mess up my current installation of 4, maybe if I could have a separate installation I could pull it off, but I don’t know.
I also played Resident Evil 7 and 8 recently. Now I’ve officially run out of Resident Evil to stream for the series, I just have to wait for them to make a new one. But that gives me time to catch up on videos. There was a bit of a gap in editing while I didn’t have half my RAM, and I need to get back into the swing of it.
Resident Evil 8/Village was pretty brutal and I cried a couple of times. I would say it’s rough if you’ve ever lost a baby, but to be honest, I can’t imagine anyone who’s so much as met a baby getting through this unscathed. I know that games are a form of storytelling and they are meant to make you feel things and work through things from real life. Gaming is my first love, I really do get it. But parts of this game really hurt me and I don’t think they were necessary. Don’t hate me, Capcom.
And of course I’ve got more FO76 rambling, because when do I not? But first I’m gonna whack-in some recent videos.
I’m working on the video for REmake 4 now, but it might take me a while, there’s a lot of real-life stuff going on at the moment, we are busy.
And, I almost forgot to mention Tomb Raider! I finished The Last Revelation a little while ago, I was not good at it. I need to start Chronicles at some point. And Soul Reaver 2, still. I planned to play it off-stream first to refresh my memory so I wasn’t wandering around confused for hours, but I just haven’t had the time.
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